Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Ruairi77]

Either this post is a joke, or you haven't a feckin' clue what you are on about.

I have nationalist sensitivities? Sod off! I have been manipulated by Putin? Really sod off!

Oh well, posts like yours DO keep up the hilarity ratings anyway...

I believe that the likes of Bannon and Farage were influenced by Putin,
I believe Russia used social media and groups like Cambridge Analytics to sew discontent and whip up anti immigrant sentiment.
I think that this meddling swung two very close votes, here and in the UK.
Of course you don't think any of that influenced you. If you thought it did, their campaign wouldn't have been successful.

 

[roydo]

Well I can't list products that we don't sell and I'm not going to trawl through each product and it's sales by country for you.

Demand will increase because besides a lower £ we will be doing far more free trade deals, thereby removing trade barriers and tariffs. The EU consists of about 7% of the worlds population, we will now properly address the other 93%.....

Maybe.

 

[Ruairi77]

@Old Blue 2 I'm probably being a bit harsh here, you would always have voted out, no matter how well the EU was doing.

 

[Old Blue 2]

I believe that the likes of Bannon and Farage were influenced by Putin,
I believe Russia used social media and groups like Cambridge Analytics to sew discontent and whip up anti immigrant sentiment.
I think that this meddling swung two very close votes, here and in the UK.
Of course you don't think any of that influenced you. If you thought it did, their campaign wouldn't have been successful.

Jeez, you WERE serious.

I just wish you could see me laughing here in front of my screen...

Excuse me while I do the Russian goose-step into the Kremlin...

 

[Old Blue 2]

@Old Blue 2 I'm probably being a bit harsh here, you would always have voted out, no matter how well the EU was doing.

I voted in in the '70s.

So seeing as you appear to know so much about me, tell me exactly why I voted out. Tell me my complete train of thought throughout the decades.

If you're going to post to/about me, please don't post sh1te!!!

 

[Brennan]

I voted in in the '70s.

So seeing as you appear to know so much about me, tell me exactly why I voted out. Tell me my complete train of thought throughout the decades.

If you're going to post to/about me, please don't post sh1te!!!

Again with the agression

 

[Ruairi77]

I voted in in the '70s.

So seeing as you appear to know so much about me, tell me exactly why I voted out. Tell me my complete train of thought throughout the decades.

If you're going to post to/about me, please don't post sh1te!!!

ok ok, cool your jets there buddy.
You voted out because you liked the idea of an economic union but you think it's turning in to a federalist Europe and that's not what you signed up for.

 

[roydo]

I voted in in the '70s.

So seeing as you appear to know so much about me, tell me exactly why I voted out. Tell me my complete train of thought throughout the decades.

If you're going to post to/about me, please don't post sh1te!!!

1. Can you lose the aggression.

2. And the swearing.

Ta

 

[peteblue]

ok ok, cool your jets there buddy.
You voted out because you liked the idea of an economic union but you think it's turning in to a federalist Europe and that's not what you signed up for.

Is the correct answer.......for me anyway......

 

[Old Blue 2]

1. Can you lose the aggression.

2. And the swearing.

Ta

Fine. I accept your admonishment.

Perhaps you could also admonish Ruairi77 for his presumptive post regarding me in the first place, viz. "You'll never change the minds of Joey, Pete or Old Blue as their nationalist sensitivities have been played on by a sophisticated propaganda machine.". Post #20664, previous page. Clearly stating I have been influenced by a Communist regime/leader if one reads the full post. 100% wrong, and not acceptable...

 

[roydo]

Is the correct answer.......for me anyway......

And I totally get that, and pretty much agree with that.

But.

I am far from convinced that a lot of Leave voters voted Out for that reason. Y'know?

Maybe I am wrong, and we will never know.

 

[Ruairi77]

Is the correct answer.......for me anyway......

Perhaps it was wrong of me to label you, Joey and OB2 abs being influenced by Putin as I believe your views on the EU have been established for a while (that's not a pop). But I do see a new nationalism rising around the world and I do think the likes of Farage and UKIP in the UK are easily manipulated by larger powers and the message they put out during the referendum was intentionally divisive. It happened here in the states too. It's not a coincidence.

 

[roydo]

Fine. I accept your admonishment.

Perhaps you could also admonish Ruairi77 for his presumptive post regarding me in the first place, viz. "You'll never change the minds of Joey, Pete or Old Blue as their nationalist sensitivities have been played on by a sophisticated propaganda machine.". Post #20664, previous page. Clearly stating I have been influenced by a Communist regime/leader if one reads the full post. 100% wrong, and not acceptable...

He/she didnt swear.

Its a forum mate. We tolerate all sorts of opinions/conclusions/flights of fancy.

Just cos you dont agree with his/her opinion, aint going to do anything.

 

[Old Blue 2]

He/she didnt swear.

Its a forum mate. We tolerate all sorts of opinions/conclusions/flights of fancy.

Just cos you dont agree with his/her opinion, aint going to do anything.

Fine, and I have accepted that I was wrong to post the word.

But it has happened time and time again in this thread, that people have presumed certain things about me (and others I might add), and have posted them, such as Ruairi77 has done in the latest round of things, which point was totally 100% wrong. Yet he/she gets away with such postings, and I get clobbered when replying (albeit too strongly, I admit).

It is NOT acceptable to accuse me of being susceptible to Communist/Putin influence, or having leanings in that direction.

Where is the even-handedness from you, roydo...?

 

[peteblue]

Perhaps it was wrong of me to label you, Joey and OB2 abs being influenced by Putin as I believe your views on the EU have been established for a while (that's not a pop). But I do see a new nationalism rising around the world and I do think the likes of Farage and UKIP in the UK are easily manipulated by larger powers and the message they put out during the referendum was intentionally divisive. It happened here in the states too. It's not a coincidence.

I wouldn't really label anyone on here tbh, everyone seems to have slightly varying views over quite a wide spectrum of opinion.......